First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of contemporary government policy around family life
First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of contemporary government policy around family life
Charlotte Faircloth is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow with the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Sociological Research at the University of Kent.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY MOTHERING Chapter 1. Intensive motherhood and identity work * An anthropology of parenting? * Parenting and/as kinship * The UK context * Intensive mothering * Intensive motherhood: 'Local moral world' * Historicising intensive motherhood * Mothering as identity work: Narrative processes of self-making
Chapter 2. Infant feeding and intensive motherhood * Breastfeeding * The scientific case for breastfeeding * The context of infant feeding 1900-present * Infant feeding and policy * Choosing to breastfeed: Informed choice? * Infant feeding and maternal identity PART II: LA LECHE LEAGUE Chapter 3. Contextualising 'full-term' breastfeeding * La Leche League * Research sample * Demographic profile: Who comes to LLL meetings? * Non-participant observation * Accounts * Experiences * Case-study * Contextualising full-term breastfeeding * Breastfeeding, body boundaries and individuality * Defence strategies Chapter 4. La Leche League: Philosophy and community * A typical meeting * La Leche League's philosophy * The founding of LLL Great Britain (LLLGB) * Paradoxes of appeal * LLL and attachment parenting * LLL for all mothers? Chapter 5. 'Finding my tribe' * Why do people come to La Leche League meetings? * 'Finding my tribe' * Norms * La Leche League as purposeful network * Norms * Activism * Resistance PART III: ACCOUNTING FOR FULL-TERM BREASTFEEDING Chapter 6. 'It's natural': some cultural contradictions * Types of natural: Some accounts * Natural parenting * Evolutionary narratives: Primates and 'primitives' * 'Natural' mothering: Feminism and fathers * Cultural contradictions of going natural * A return to anthropology? * Postscript Chapter 7. 'What science says is best': Science as dogma * The scientific claim for full-term breastfeeding and attachment parenting * Psychological evidence * Neuroscience: 'Real evidence' * 'The Science' * 'The Science' and 'informed choice' Chapter 8. 'What feels right in my heart': Hormones, morality and affective breastfeeding * Because of the hormones: 'It feels right' * Affective breastfeeding * Instinct and intuition: Some contradictions * Agency when you 'just know' * A moral good? * Affect sensuality and breastfeeding * Non-nutritive sucking, or, The affective residue PART IV: CONTEXTUALISING INTENSIVE MOTHERHOOD Chapter 9. Mothering as identity work in cross-cultural perspective: The case of France * Making selves: Separation and attachment * Paris: A comparison * LLL France * Doubled reflexivity * French parenting: Non-intensive motherhood? * It's natural? Feminism and (full-term) breastfeeding in France * 'Réunions à théme': Attachment mothers in Paris * Expressing milk: The French way? Conclusion
Appendices Appendix I: Short term and long-term health benefits of breastfeeding for the child and mother in developed countries Appendix II: Summary of demographic results from questionnaire responses Notes References Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY MOTHERING Chapter 1. Intensive motherhood and identity work * An anthropology of parenting? * Parenting and/as kinship * The UK context * Intensive mothering * Intensive motherhood: 'Local moral world' * Historicising intensive motherhood * Mothering as identity work: Narrative processes of self-making
Chapter 2. Infant feeding and intensive motherhood * Breastfeeding * The scientific case for breastfeeding * The context of infant feeding 1900-present * Infant feeding and policy * Choosing to breastfeed: Informed choice? * Infant feeding and maternal identity PART II: LA LECHE LEAGUE Chapter 3. Contextualising 'full-term' breastfeeding * La Leche League * Research sample * Demographic profile: Who comes to LLL meetings? * Non-participant observation * Accounts * Experiences * Case-study * Contextualising full-term breastfeeding * Breastfeeding, body boundaries and individuality * Defence strategies Chapter 4. La Leche League: Philosophy and community * A typical meeting * La Leche League's philosophy * The founding of LLL Great Britain (LLLGB) * Paradoxes of appeal * LLL and attachment parenting * LLL for all mothers? Chapter 5. 'Finding my tribe' * Why do people come to La Leche League meetings? * 'Finding my tribe' * Norms * La Leche League as purposeful network * Norms * Activism * Resistance PART III: ACCOUNTING FOR FULL-TERM BREASTFEEDING Chapter 6. 'It's natural': some cultural contradictions * Types of natural: Some accounts * Natural parenting * Evolutionary narratives: Primates and 'primitives' * 'Natural' mothering: Feminism and fathers * Cultural contradictions of going natural * A return to anthropology? * Postscript Chapter 7. 'What science says is best': Science as dogma * The scientific claim for full-term breastfeeding and attachment parenting * Psychological evidence * Neuroscience: 'Real evidence' * 'The Science' * 'The Science' and 'informed choice' Chapter 8. 'What feels right in my heart': Hormones, morality and affective breastfeeding * Because of the hormones: 'It feels right' * Affective breastfeeding * Instinct and intuition: Some contradictions * Agency when you 'just know' * A moral good? * Affect sensuality and breastfeeding * Non-nutritive sucking, or, The affective residue PART IV: CONTEXTUALISING INTENSIVE MOTHERHOOD Chapter 9. Mothering as identity work in cross-cultural perspective: The case of France * Making selves: Separation and attachment * Paris: A comparison * LLL France * Doubled reflexivity * French parenting: Non-intensive motherhood? * It's natural? Feminism and (full-term) breastfeeding in France * 'Réunions à théme': Attachment mothers in Paris * Expressing milk: The French way? Conclusion
Appendices Appendix I: Short term and long-term health benefits of breastfeeding for the child and mother in developed countries Appendix II: Summary of demographic results from questionnaire responses Notes References Index
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